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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Receiver Appointed.
One of the Latest Hazelton Favorites.
THE REIMERS PIANO COMPANY IN FINANCIAL
STRAITS GEORGE E. CRAMER APPOINTED
RECEIVER BY JUDGE BARNARD.
[Special to The Review.]
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1898.
The majority of the directors of the
Reimers Piano Co., consisting of W. T.
Reynolds, William O. Bartlett, Jacob Cor-
lies, George E. Cramer a few days ago
filed a petition for dissolution and asking
that a temporary receiver be appointed.
Judge Barnard appointed George E. Cra-
mer. The directors named have endorsed
notes for the company to the extent of
$7,500. The assets of the company are
$4,169.64, which does not include the
patents or patterns, while the liabilities are
estimated at $13,679.07. The shares held
by the creditors run from 1 to 400 and
are worth $25 each. The heaviest creditor
is J. Reimers, whom it is estimated holds
$10,000.
In the cleverly edited and well produced
catalogue just issued by the celebrated house
of Hazelton Bros., of this city, illustrations
of a number of new styles are embodied
which have recently been brought out by
that establishment. As may be expected
from an institution whose every effort has
been to maintain in their pianos artistic
•qualities of a distinctive character, the new
style Hazeltons possess individual features
in casings, scale, tone and action adjust-
ment that will win for them a merited
reputation for general excellence.
The finest and most perfect specimens
of Hazelton effort are styles M and X.
The former is pictured above, the latter
we will illustrate later. Style M is made
in a variety of woods—figured mahogany,
walnut, ebony and oak. It contains the
new Hazelton scale, handsomely carved
panels, full iron frame, patent repeating
action, patent adjustable full front swing-
ing music desk, folding fall.
It is four
feet six inches high, five feet one inch wide,
two feet four inches deep. It is not neces-
sary to go into any detailed eulogy of this
instrument. Hazelton piano fame is too
wide-spread to call for this. Dealers will
find style M a perfect specimen of piano
making, whether as to tone or construction.
German Laws Against Misre=
presentation.
serve as advertisenents.
In one case a
tradesman was summoned for advertising
cheap goods as ' umblemished ' (fehlerfrei),
and prohibited from using that term in the
future." It would be a good thing for
both the consumer and the honest merchant
if at least some of these regulations could
be universally adopted. But such rigid
paternal legislation, while possible of en-
forcement in Germany, could hardly be
successful in this country. It smacks too
much of curtailment of liberty to meet
the approval of the public at large.
The principle involved in most of the
decisions above quoted is one which com-
mends itself, however, on the grounds
both of strict trade morality and of com-
mon sense. Misrepresentation of goods is
far too common a vice in the business
world to-day. The worst of it is that it is
so common as to call forth little or no
censure.
"Trade
custom" covers a
multitude of frauds which are winked at
and accepted even by those whose standard
of morality in private life is beyond re-
proach.
The British Ambassador at Berlin has
furnished to his Government a report
relating to the publication in the official
organ of the Prussian Chambers of Com-
merce of a list of some interesting judicial
decisions made in Germany under the law
against "unfair competition."
Among
these were the following: " A tradesman
who advertises 'all one price ' is bound to
sell all his goods at that price; he infringes
the law if he charges more. For offering
certain goods for sale under cost price in
order to attract customers the court con-
demned the defendant as being guilty of
an offense against the law. Customers
have the right to buy goods in any quantity
at the price at which they are indicated in
the shop windows. To sell at cost price
means, according to the Chambers of Com-
merce, charging customers the price which
the seller paid at the factory. If a trades-
man advertises ' small profits and quick
returns ' he must be ready to prove the
assertion. Views on business paper of
factories and showrooms must represent
those places as they actually are, as they
TheScribner Organ Mfg. Co., is a recent
acquisition to the music houses located in
London, Ont.
BEHR BROS "CO.
PIANOS
29™5T.&II™AVE.
NEW YORK.
For some months the Reimers Piano Com-
pany has been considered as being a trifle
shaky in its financial standing, but through
it all the directors have stood firm, placing
their names on the notes as they came in,
but as the months passed and they found
that no income was derived from their
work they got together and filed a petition
for dissolution.
The final hearing to decide whether the
firm is solvent or insolvent, and whether
a regular receiver be appointed or not, will
come before Judge Barnard on January 21,
1899.
Kimball Organs in the Fine Arts
Building.
During a recent interview Chas. C.
Curtiss, director of the Fine Arts Building,
Chicago, said that the new building was
filling very rapidly with the most desirable
class of tenants, principally teachers and
artists.
It seems that the announcements which
have been made regarding the opening of
the new Kimball organ in the Studebaker
Hall in the Fine Arts Building are rather
premature. As yet the organ which is to
occupy a prominent position in the new
building devoted to musical art in Chicago
has not been completed, therefore an open-
ing has not as yet been decided upon.
Straube Catalogue.
The Straube Piano Co., of Chicago, have
issued a neatly printed pocket catalogue,
containing illustrations and descriptions of
their new Straube styles " L " & " M , "
which are made up in mahogany, Italian
and American walnut and oak. There also
appears a view of the scale used in the new
styles as well as a cut showing heavy up-
right post and frame and carved back. The
instruments shown are very attractive and
shoiild meet with a big demand from
dealers.
Highest Standard of Excellence.